But oh! what a precious fruit of the renewed heart is true prayer! If there is a single exercise of the soul that places the fact of its regeneracy beyond a doubt, it is this. Prayer, that comes as holy fire from God, and that rises as holy incense to God; prayer, that takes me, with every want and infirmity, with every sin and sorrow, to the bosom of the Father, through the smitten bosom of the Son; prayer, that sweetens my solitude, that calms my perturbed spirit, that weakens the power of sin, that nourishes the desire for holiness, and that transports the soul into the calmer presence of God, where all is sunshine and peace. O what a wondrous privilege is this!
Octavius Winslow — Glimpses of the Truth as It Is in Jesus (Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1856), p. 133
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